Along with analytics providers, online video remains one of the hot places for VC firms to place their bets. That trend has already sent millions of dollars in funding to online video ad network TidalTV, which has just raised another $30 million round as it looks to expand internationally.

Video ad network TidalTV has completed the $16 million second round funding it initiated last fall, Mediapost reports. As we reported in October, the Baltimore-based TidalTV raised an initial $8.9 million portion. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital, the cable operator’s venture arm, participated in the round, as did previous backers…

Bringing the freemium model to the musty world of textbook publishing, Flat World Knowledge (FWK), a Nyack, NY-based publisher of open-source commercial textbooks, has raised $8 million in its first round of funding. Investors include Greenhill SAVP, High Peaks Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners. Founded in 2007, it received $1.5…

Casual sports games developer Play Hard Sports has closed an $8 million second round of funding. Valhalla Partners led the round, with additional funds from TriplePoint Capital and existing investor New Enterprise Associates. Foxboro, Mass.-based Play Hard has raised $13 million since its launch in April 2008; its first title,…

World Sports Network, a network of football sites out of China, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Valhalla Investments. The company, based in Shanghai, has two sites: an English-language one at wsn.com and Chinese at cn.wsn.com. The sites are focused towards the Asian markets, though the coverage is…

Cambridge, MA.-based JumpTap, a white-label mobile search and advertising company, plans to announce today that it has raised $26 million in a fourth round of funding, bringing its overall total to $72 million. The latest round was led by Alliance Bernstein L.P., a publicly traded global asset management firm. All…

Online video programming startup TidalTV has raised a $15 million first round led by New Enterprise Associates and Valhalla Partners, the company tells paidContent. At the moment, its site is in “coming soon” mode and the funding is intended to move along the development of TidalTV’s programming and platform. With…

Reston, VA-based Avail Media, a provider of IPTV services to broadband operators, has added $8 million to its second round, which started earlier this year. The round is now complete at $25 million, with participation from new investor Valhalla Partners and previous backers Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and…